
Political Masculinity
How Incels, Fundamentalists and Authoritarians Mobilise for Patriarchy
Susanne Kaiser(Author)
Polity Press
1st Edition
Published on 26. May 2022
Book
Hardback
220 pages
978-1-5095-5080-7 (ISBN)
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Men with assault rifles, balaclavas and Hawaiian shirts pulled over bulletproof vests. Horned warriors with painted faces and fur headresses draped over their naked torsos. Misogynistic dating coaches. The storming of the Capitol brought together men who had previously come across one other only online in the Manosphere. These were men with a common interest, followers of a male-supremacist ideology, who rioted in order to fight for their privilege. Before then, the world had looked on as devastating attacks were carried out by incels: those who seek to gain unfettered access to women's bodies by redrawing the hierarchy of the sexes in order to ensure the subjugation of women.
For all of these men, masculinity is a political project, and the events at the Capitol were one episode in a growing movement. From Canada to New Zealand, from Poland to Brazil, right-wing extemists, religious fundamentalists and male supremacists are coming together in order to translate their reactionary dreams of male domination and entitlement into politics. Evidence of this can be seen at the highest echelons of power, from Trump to Orban and Bolsonaro. And even if Trump has now faded from public view, his fan base is still going strong, while bestselling theorists such as Jordan Peterson demonstrate how seductive misogynist ideologies can be. The fact that misogyny and sexism are so central to right-wing political movements attests to the masculine roots of the authoritarian backlash.
For all of these men, masculinity is a political project, and the events at the Capitol were one episode in a growing movement. From Canada to New Zealand, from Poland to Brazil, right-wing extemists, religious fundamentalists and male supremacists are coming together in order to translate their reactionary dreams of male domination and entitlement into politics. Evidence of this can be seen at the highest echelons of power, from Trump to Orban and Bolsonaro. And even if Trump has now faded from public view, his fan base is still going strong, while bestselling theorists such as Jordan Peterson demonstrate how seductive misogynist ideologies can be. The fact that misogyny and sexism are so central to right-wing political movements attests to the masculine roots of the authoritarian backlash.
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Language
English
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Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Height: 218 mm
Width: 136 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
408 gr
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978-1-5095-5080-7 (9781509550807)
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How Incels, Fundamentalists and Authoritarians Mobilise for Patriarchy
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How Incels, Fundamentalists and Authoritarians Mobilise for Patriarchy
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Susanne Kaiser is a journalist and political consultant who writes for Die Zeit, Der Spiegel and others.
Content
Acknowledgments
Introduction
I. Organized Misogyny
The Incel Movement
A New Type of Misogynist Masculinity
The "Manosphere": A Reservoir of Aggrieved Men
Violence against Women, Online and Offline
Attacks against Women
A New Form of Terrorism Emerges
II. The Ideologies of Authoritarians: For the "Natural Order"
Aggrieved Entitlement
The Politicization of Masculinity
The Prophets of the Masculinists
White Sharia
III. The Politics of Masculinity
Translating Aggrieved Entitlement into Political Action
Unholy Alliances
The Networks and Strategies of the Anti-Gender Movement
Follow the Money: How Transnational Movements Are Built
Riding Hegemonic Masculinity to Power
Biologism as an Attack on Democracy
Poster Girls and Female Architects
Conclusion: Masculinity in Uncertain Times
Notes
Introduction
I. Organized Misogyny
The Incel Movement
A New Type of Misogynist Masculinity
The "Manosphere": A Reservoir of Aggrieved Men
Violence against Women, Online and Offline
Attacks against Women
A New Form of Terrorism Emerges
II. The Ideologies of Authoritarians: For the "Natural Order"
Aggrieved Entitlement
The Politicization of Masculinity
The Prophets of the Masculinists
White Sharia
III. The Politics of Masculinity
Translating Aggrieved Entitlement into Political Action
Unholy Alliances
The Networks and Strategies of the Anti-Gender Movement
Follow the Money: How Transnational Movements Are Built
Riding Hegemonic Masculinity to Power
Biologism as an Attack on Democracy
Poster Girls and Female Architects
Conclusion: Masculinity in Uncertain Times
Notes